Waters raises a good question in the video - how did someone who started off with with a project for rating women by appearance become one of the most powerful people in the world?
That said the theory of bounded rationality states chimps with 6 inch brains will blunder on any problem requiring 7 inch brains or 200 inch brains or 2 million inch brains. And since the chimp troupe has been wrangling with such problems ever since they started speaking blundering about in spectacular ways is the norm.
The theory recommends focusing on simple problems when faced with complexity, but you know us chimps...we are too full of ourselves and ofcourse from birth we are trained to blame others even when we have no solutions. Overcoming those 2 issues is how we get to nirvana.
He was at Harvard, considered one of the best learning institutions in the world.
Studying psychology and computer science, during a revolution in humanity around computers.
Had a strong work ethic, drunk, late at night, in second year he got a site off the ground so popular it crashed servers.
The question is an awful lie, I believe it ranked people not women. It's just a cheap nonintellectual attack not a question.
Roger Waters is an artist, which is about emotions not logic or truth so I wouldn't fault him, but it's not a good question.
2. Stole the idea for Facebook from paying clients.
3. Tricked his best friend in college into signing his (Eduardo) share of Facebook over to him.
4. Publicly stating his customers were stupid in trusting him with personal information.
5. Printing up "I'm CEO bitch!" while he was swimming in money.
6. Marrying his college girlfriend--most likely because he knew he would never know if the opposite sex liked him for his money, or his kind soul? (She was interested in him after FB was famous.)
7. Moves into a SF mansion and buys out every house in proximity to his home.
8. Buys a huge swath of Hawaiian land, and then put up huge fences so the locals will not be able to cross.
9. Does the usual wealthy boy 501c3 tax dodge.
10. Has the audacity to believe he could run run for president, and poses on a few tractors in the midwest, but gives up when it wasn't fun, and people found him insincere.
11. Tells congress to enact strict rules for Social media, knowing most startups couldn't afford enforcing the new laws.
12. Buying any competition.
13. Buy up prime commercial real estate in San Francisco during a pandemic. Telling his employees they can work at home. I'm counting the days he brings in the troops so he can monitor their performance.
14. Donates 20 million to a SF hospital, but demands his name is front and center.
15. I don't hate the guy. He's a product of his generation. Sorry---a small percentage of his generation. Marky is all about money, and most of you guys arn't.
A real role model?
I can't find any mention of this; in fact, it seems this person (Erica) only exists in the "the social network" movie. There seems to be a "real" Erica, but I found nothing about snide comment from his side.
> 4. Publicly stating his customers were stupid in trusting him with personal information.
I'm pretty sure he did so privately; that's not better, though.
> 5. Printing up "I'm CEO bitch!" while he was swimming in money.
That's a bit childish maybe, but if he enjoys that.
> 9. Does the usual wealthy boy 501c3 tax dodge.
I have yet to meet someone who likes to pay more taxes. Most of the people reading this are part of the most wealthy people of the world right now and yet they minimize their taxes as well. I can't blame anyone for using the system to their advantage; it's the system that is faulty.
But anyway. All of these don't picture him in a good light, sure, but overall none of these are absolute "killing blows". We have politicians with a criminal record that makes Zuckerberg look like a poster child.
As I said in my original comment: I don't think he is a particularly good guy and I don't want to defend him. But when you compare him to the overall political elite, that small smear is really not the end of the world.